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April 24, 2008

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YouTube video now on the QT

Posted Apr. 24, ’08, 9:58 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Video

YT <3 QTYouTube may be among the best productivity sinks known to mankind, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be improved. When the iPhone was announced to have YouTube capability, it came out that the YT (as the kids call it) would be transcoding its videos into QuickTime for easy digestion on the mobile platform. But, as has become apparent recently, that higher-quality video is available to those on old-fashioned computers as well.

Going through the process of downloading a higher-quality version was still a little annoying, though, so blogger Joey Hagedorn came up with a simple bookmarklet that lets you switch the Flash video to a QuickTime video with just the press of a button. The only downside is that not all videos are transcoded, so you may find some old favorites just give you a QuickTime logo with a question mark.

At some point, I’d imagine that YouTube will make this functionality more transparent, but until then, the bookmark is a pretty convenient little workaround for watching time-wasting videos in all of their high-quality glory.

[via Mac OS X Hints]


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